Recent items in Ako Aotearoa

Te Ara Whakamana programme now available

The programme for Te Ara Whakamana: Pathways, transitions and bridges to tertiary education is now available.
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Creative Commons meetup: Open research and OER in tertiary

Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand and InternetNZ  invite you to an evening of infor
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Applications invited for Business/Project Manager of Ako Aotearoa

Ako Aotearoa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence is entering an exciting new phase of development and looking to grow.
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Open(ing) opportunities: Understanding the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement

Venue Massey University, Wellington Campus, 10A02
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Māori design and tertiary education

This research project led by Otago Polytechnic’s Caroline McCaw, introduces 4 strategies for incorporating Te Ao Māori and Māori design principles into the teaching programmes of tertiary design educators.
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Improving the effectiveness of large-class teaching in law degrees

This report identifies effective methods for teaching large classes supported by limited hours of small group, face-to-face teaching. The report and adaptive good practice template will be of interest teachers of large classes.
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Learner-centred research at Tuia Te Ako 2012

Research into aspects of teaching and learning was a prominent feature on the Tuia Te Ako 2012 programme. Six Ako Aotearoa-funded research projects featured at the hui.
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Review It! pick of the posters at DEANZ

At the 2012 Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) conference in Wellington in April, Ralph Springett (President of the Massey University Extramural Students’ Society) won the best poster award for his Review It! presentation.
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Alert goes online

Ako Aotearoa has moved its regular newsletter – Ako Aotearoa Alert – online as a vital part of the new strategy to communicate in a more efficient and timely way with the growi
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International higher education curriculum design symposium

  Reclaiming quality in education
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